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Steve Thorn wrote:I've had really good success with Egyptian walking onions. It grows so well, it was almost hard to kill!
I'm really excited to plant some sunchokes too this year, and I'm also going to plant some sweet potatoes and horderadish.
I'm getting hungry thinking about a good sweet potato with cinnamon sugar and butter, and horderadish cocktail sauce with some shrimp this summer!
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Nathanael Szobody wrote:Cassava is real easy, so are yams. I grow cassava in my garden.
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Tyler Ludens wrote:This year I'm trying two species of Yam and two varieties of Taro. Not sure if I will be able to overwinter the tropical Yam. So far the Taro are alive. I've been covering them when it drops below freezing. The Yams have not sprouted yet and probably won't until it gets quite warm for extended periods. Of course they could just be rotting down there!
I've enjoyed learning about Yams and Taro from David the Good: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC208478ECji1rdkDDbB0vHQ
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Cindy Skillman wrote:The arrowroot sounds really interesting. We have a wet swampy area I’d love to fill, but can it possibly compete with the Canada Thistle infesting the area at present now? The CT constantly blows in from USFS land (badly managed, free-grazed by cattle that eat everything else but CT). I mow it when it starts to bud, but it’s a never ending thing. I’d love to see almost anything else growing there. And I’m thinking about getting a few ducks... but I could wait, or fence them out for a few years.
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Cindy Skillman wrote:I just finished reading/watching your blog post. Really, really great job and fascinating info. Thanks so much!
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Ralph Kettell wrote:OK Daron,
You got me again! LOL. I just ordered Sunchokes, Egyptian walking onions, and American Groundnuts and I will probably buy some Cannas also. Oh and I already planted some Hostas today.
My Comfrey is coming up nicely, I should have a bumper crop of both Bocking 4 and Bocking 14. Yeee ha. I am going to post about my experiences with ordering and planting and propagating the two strains from and info on the two sources after they have grown a bit more. The Bocking 14 which I got from Marsh Creek Farms is doing nicely. The crown cuttings are getting good sized in my garage/shop and just yesterday the frist 3 or so of the 50 root cuttings poked their little heads out from the mulch. They said it would take 8 weeks and it has been about 6 weeks for the first hints of life.
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Cameron Whyte wrote:Another great post Daron
Bought 15 oca seeds from cultivariables and almost gave up on them the germination was so reluctant but glad I found them and about half are teeny tiny seedlings looking viable and healthy. What a relief! Such a worthwhile project as I can’t seem to source oca tubers here in Canada. Got some beauties from the uk a few years back but they didn’t survive the winter months and the ones languishing on the fridge became mouldy and died. So sad and now I am playing the long game. Sunchokes, especially the red skinned ones were so delicious that I expanded my plantings and have high hopes. All this talk of flatuence and no one in my family succumbed after devouring them. A really beautiful crop to make space for.
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Steve Thorn wrote:I've had really good success with Egyptian walking onions. It grows so well, it was almost hard to kill!
I'm really excited to plant some sunchokes too this year, and I'm also going to plant some sweet potatoes and horderadish.
I'm getting hungry thinking about a good sweet potato with cinnamon sugar and butter, and horderadish cocktail sauce with some shrimp this summer!
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Mike Turner wrote:Potatoes are a perennial vegetable here, producing 2 crops a year. They grow from March through June, then going dormant until September, then growing until first frost in November. Any tubers I miss or leave in the ground go on to grow in the next appropriate growing season.
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Elanor Pog wrote:Tumeric
Ginger (s)
Galangal - i think it is called "lesser galangal" and the "greater galangal" is a much bigger plant. Spicy scented leaves that the goats like too, and you have to use the roots fresh as they harden very quickly.
Taro - definitely, we have babies planted out from 1 original mama plant, and as easy to propagate as potato (cut off an eye while cooking a yum one, eat the rest and shove the eye into the mulch)
Queensland arrowroot - i don't know how similar this is to the previously mentioned arrowroot, and I don't have it in my own garden yet but friends do, and it is definitely perennial.
Sweet Potato! Our mound of it is from house slab prep, so its pretty big, aprox 20m long 3m wide 1+m high, and nearly 2 years old. Mostly a dense white skinned purple inside type that makes yumazing choco cake. And other stuff grows in there too, basically a food forest in the early stages. Um we actually use a mini loader to harvest them now with the digger bucket, 2 broken garden forks later was the lesson - use the machine!
Day lilies, and dahlias? Perennial, edible flowers, but the tubers of both are edible (my plants of both have LOVELY flowers at the moment but are tooooo young for me to dig any up and eat! Ask me in 2025...)
I have just bought 2 new root vegie plants a week ago from All Rare Herbs dot com, a peruvian parsnip (not maca) and Chinese keys (Boesenbergia rotunda). I have chinese scallions in a bed, also from them.
Chayote, choko. Mainly tasteless when mature, great for bulking any jam or used as a pie filling. Baby ones look cute in my vegie curry. Being a curcubit family, edible growing tips which are tasty. The seeds are my favourite bit sadly there isn't much in 1 choko. I have seen some plants many years old, they grow a large stem, thigh wide, if they have something to climb. My partner says this is not a root veg, as it is not the root you eat, but I think it is a grey area! It is not a fruit tree, and no other squash grow like this, do they?
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Daron Williams wrote:
Mike Turner wrote:Potatoes are a perennial vegetable here, producing 2 crops a year. They grow from March through June, then going dormant until September, then growing until first frost in November. Any tubers I miss or leave in the ground go on to grow in the next appropriate growing season.
That's great--I actually have volunteers coming back up in my area to. I debated making the case for them to be considered a perennial root vegetable and just decided to leave them out. But you make a good point about growing them in warmer areas. Do you move yours around? Just wondering if you ever have pest issues with them growing in the same spot for a longer time period. I hear conflicting views on that being an issue. Thanks for sharing!
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Rosemary – that is great! Thanks for sharing! If you want to share any info about how you cook with them I’m sure a lot of us would be very interested 😊
Sweet potatoes will be new to me. I have not grown them yet and I still need to get an area prepared for them. Perhaps next year.
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Rosemary Hansen wrote:
Rosemary – that is great! Thanks for sharing! If you want to share any info about how you cook with them I’m sure a lot of us would be very interested 😊
Sweet potatoes will be new to me. I have not grown them yet and I still need to get an area prepared for them. Perhaps next year.
Thanks for the reply, Daron! I have to say, you always have very nice, kind things to say to people who reply to your threads. And you clearly take the extra time to read everyone's thoughts in detail. So thanks for that
I would love to share some recipes, once we get our roots producing! Thanks for the idea! Cheers
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Xisca Nicolas wrote:For those who can propagate sweet potatoes from stems:
- make a loop and cross the stem like an alpha letter.
They will grow more tubers and make more roots quicker.
Burry the "lasso" horizontally with some leaves outside.
Roots appear at each place where you cut leaves on the burried stem.
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They will grow more tubers and make more roots quicker.
Burry the "lasso" horizontally with some leaves outside.
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Ann Maud wrote: I've grown skirret for about three years now, it grows nice and healthy and it spreads easily but the roots are too skinny to bother cooking with. Last year i pulled it all out to plant something more productive.
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